Pasta is the perfect example of this "problem food." Most pasta believe it or not is categorized as a "healthy" food. Why? because it is enriched with nutrients that your body needs and might be lacking. Additionally it has a low glycemic rating. But the bad new is this... Pasta is exploding with calories! The typical serving of Pasta has 2 times the number of carbohydrate calories that a body can process! So what happens? Your body will convert those excess carb calories into FAT Tissue, exactly what you're trying to avoid.Also, what does the average person eat with pasta? Meat Balls, Pesto, Alfredo or another Type of Sauce? Do you see how the excess calories that your body simply turns into fat just keep adding up and adding up?
So should you avoid pasta altogether? NO! remember what we said about carbs providing much needed energy? Ok, so how should you eat pasta to loose weight? First learn how to ROTATE your carbohydrates and next--eat half of the portion you would normally receive from a restaurant. Also and I can't stress this enough, don't eat it with Alfredo or anything except a Simple spaghetti sauce with seasoning salt for additional flavor.
If you want to eat pasta and again you can from time to time; you should make it at home. Eating pasta out will surely give you too much as a portion and the sauce will more than likely just add fat tissue to your body. You should also be aware of other carbohydrates like rice which again has tons of calories and the portions you receive from your favorite restaurant are way over the top.
The bottom line--Carbohydrate intake needs to be monitored BUT you do NOT have to go on a high protein low carb diet to lose weight and be healthy. However you do need to learn the proper way to ROTATE your carbs for the optimum period of time since the wrong carbs and the wrong carb portions will make you gain weight very quickly.

